Tuesday, November 20, 2007

21 Days to Health & Beyond

The 21 Days to Health & Beyond detox diet is simple and austere and easy to do if you have the desire to do it.

It is not, repeat NOT, a program for people with no will power.

In a nutshell, with this do-it-yourself detox/cleansing program, for three weeks you'll eat no dairy foods, no meat or animal foods other than a tablespoon a day of cod liver oil, no white flour, no sugar, and no salt.

Instead of the usual American diet of junk and highly processed foods, you'll live on delicious recipes composed of fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and whole grains.

After you complete the 21-day program, you'll transition to the Health & Beyond Living to the Max program, which features a healthy traditional diet of whole foods from both plant and animal kingdoms that will help you feel great for the rest of your life.

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

43 Nutrition Secrets Revealed


Have you got a meal plan and diet strategy ?

If you don't then, it's a bit like driving in the countryside without a road map - you never know where you'll end up.

It's nothing new, you probably already know you need a strategy. The difficulty is HOW do you get a diet strategy that will work for you ?

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10 Herbal Tea Recipes

Discover the 10 natural herbal tea recipes used to treat illness and disease for hundreds of years.

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Effects Of Calcium Aspartate Anhydrous On Osteoporosis Treatment

Background Osteoporosis is a common metabolic bone disease. We conducted a multi-center, double- placebo, double-blind study to verify the effects of calcium aspartate anhydrous on osteoporosis. Methods 1,306 patients with an initial t-score of –1.5 or lower were randomly assigned to receive calcium aspartate anhydrous (CalAA, 520mg elemental per day) and a placebo, or calcium citrate (1500 mg elemental per day) and vitamin D (1000 IU per day), or two placebos. Results At 3 months, the bone mineral density (BMD) at the lumbar spine had increased by a mean of 4.07% in the CalAA group, 0.64 percent in the calcium citrate group and there was no significant change in the double-placebo group. The BMD of the total hip had increased by a mean of 3.37 percent in the CalAA group. No significant change was detected in the calcium citrate group or the double-placebo group. At 12 months, lumbar spine BMD had increased by a mean of 5.66 percent in the CalAA group, while the calcium citrate group and the double-placebo group saw decline of 0.51% and 0.75% respectively. Total hip BMD had increased by a mean of 4.11 percent in the CalAA group while there was no significant change in the calcium citrate group. Total hip BMD declined by a mean of 1.17% in the double-placebo group.

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Medications For Prevention And Treatment Of Osteoporosis

Medications for Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis. steoporosis is a disease where the strength of bones is less than normal, making them more susceptible to fracture, or breaking, than normal bones. Any bone will break if subjected to enough force, but a bone with osteoporosis may break with very little trauma, or sometimes with no trauma at all. Fractures can cause pain, loss of independence, and shorten your life. The best time to detect osteoporosis is before a fracture happens, and the best way to do that is with a bone density test. The “gold-standard” method of measuring bone density is by DXA (Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry) of the spine and hip. If the “T-score” on the DXA test is less than or equal to –2.5, then a diagnosis of osteoporosis may be made. If you have osteoporosis, or low bone density, there are medications that can strengthen your bones and reduce the future risk of fractures. Medications can help whether or not you have already had a fracture, whether you are male or female, and even if you are very old. Since there are many medications for osteoporosis, it is important that you have a good understanding of the risks and benefits with each of them. The more you know, the better you are able to select the one that is best for you.

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Handbook Of Clinical Neurology

File Summary
Molecular Toxicology of Marine Toxins A. Specific Receptor Site Interaction: Physiologic Biomarkers of Susceptibility The naturally-occurring marine toxins responsible for Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning, Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning, Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning, Diarrheic Shellfish Poisoning, Fugu Poisoning, and Ciguatera exert their effects in the nanomole to picomole per kg body weight ranges (Yasumoto and Murata 1993). By virtue of their highly specific and potent deleterious effects on living systems, specific receptor-ligands were postulated as the pharmacologically significant event in the onset of toxicity even before the chemical identity of the toxin(s) were known (see Baden, 1983 for a review). Of those toxins now known to the seafood safety regulators, four types are known to interact with specific orphan receptors located on nerve membrane glycoproteins, one type is a potent muscle enzyme inhibitor, and one interacts specifically with a central nervous system neurotransmitter receptor site

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Nutritive Value of Foods



By Susan E. Gebhardt, Ruth H. Matthews

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Back and Neck Pain

The first step in relieving your back and neck pain is to understand the mechanics of your spine (or backbone). If you can determine where the pain is coming from, you are on your way to taking control and finding relief.

Your spine extends from the base of your skull to the top of your sacrum (or tailbone) that connects to the top of your pelvis (to which your hips join). The 44 bones of your spine are called vertebrae (7 in neck or cervical, 12 in chest or thoracic, and 5 in lower back or lumbar). Between each hard vertebra are soft discs which are jelly-filled shock-absorbers that allow the spine to stay flexible and mobile, while also supporting your body weight and the weight of anything you lift.

Dr Fong Shee Yan, MBBS FRCSEd(Orth) MMed(Surg) FAMS(Orth)

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Blue book - Guidelines for the control of infectious diseases


The blue book: guidelines for the control of infectious diseases has been published by the Communicable Diseases Section, Public Health Group, Victorian Department of Human Services, to assist public health practitioners in the prevention and control of infectious diseases.

The Department of Human Services is committed to enhancing and protecting the health and well-being of all Victorians. Our challenge, together with public health practitioners, is to reduce community risk from communicable disease in Victoria through the implementation of patient focused and population focused control strategies based on surveillance and risk assessment.

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Friday, November 9, 2007

Bone Health And Osteoporosis: A Report Of The Surgeon General

By United States Public Health Service Surgeon General of the United States

This first-ever Surgeon General’s Report on bone health and osteoporosis illustrates the large burden that bone disease places on our Nation and its citizens. Like other chronic diseases that disproportionately affect the elderly, the prevalence of bone disease and fractures is projected to increase markedly as the population ages. If these predictions come true, bone disease and fractures will have a tremendous negative impact on the future well-being of Americans. But as this report makes clear, they need not come true: by working together we can change the picture of aging in America. Osteoporosis, fractures, and other chronic diseases no longer should be thought of as an inevitable part of growing old. By focusing on prevention and lifestyle changes, including physical activity and nutrition, as well as early diagnosis and appropriate treatment, Americans can avoid much of the damaging impact of bone disease and other chronic diseases.

This Surgeon General’s Report brings together for the first time the scientific evidence related to the prevention, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of bone disease. More importantly, it provides a framework for moving forward. The report will be another effective tool in educating Americans about how they can promote bone health throughout their lives.

This first-ever Surgeon General’s Report on bone health and osteoporosis provides much needed information on bone health, an often overlooked aspect of physical health. This report follows in the tradition of previous Surgeon Generals’ reports by identifying the relevant scientific data, rigorously evaluating and summarizing the evidence, and determining conclusions.

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Genes and disease

Genes and Disease is a collection of articles that discuss genes and the diseases that they cause. These genetic disorders are organized by the parts of the body that they affect. As some diseases affect various body systems, they appear in more than one chapter.

With each genetic disorder, the underlying mutation(s) is discussed, along with clinical features and links to key websites. You can browse through the articles online, and you can also download a printable file (PDF) of each chapter.

From Genes and Disease you can delve into many online related resources with free and full access. For example, you can visit the human genome to see the location of the genes implicated in each disorder. You can also find related gene sequences in different organisms. And for the very latest information, you can search for complete research articles, and look in other books in the NCBI Bookshelf.

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Influenza Report 2006

Influenza Report 2006 is a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive overview of epidemic and pandemic influenza. The download of the PDF is free. Influenza Report has also been published in Chinese, Croatian, German, Indonesian, Mongolian, Serbian, and Slovenian.

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HIV Medicine 2006


HIV Medicine 2006 is the 14th edition of a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the treatment of HIV Infection

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Free Medical Information


HIV Medicine 2006, a medical textbook freely available over the Internet, will be downloaded more than 50,000 times in a year. At a cost of 52 € per copy, global savings (for those who otherwise would have bought the book) or added value (for those who would not have bought it) will exceed 2,500,000 €. The free Internet publication of Influenza Report 2006 resulted in comparable savings and/or added value - multiple translations are under way, more than doubling the impact.

These two examples demonstrate that the economic implications of open-access publishing are delightfully fascinating. If medical textbooks of an average price of 50 € per copy are downloaded an average 50,000 times a year, producing and freely distributing 100 medical textbooks could save doctors and interested lay people 250,000,000 € per year. A vertiginous prospective.

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Asthma Management Handbook 2006



The Asthma Management Handbook aims to be both comprehensive and user-friendly. While written primarily for general practitioners and community pharmacists, the Handbook emphasises a team approach to asthma care. It contains:

* updated diagnostic, management and prescribing guidelines
* expanded material on asthma and allergy, exercise-induced asthma, occupational asthma, asthma in pregnancy and in older people, and comorbidities
* more detail on diet and complementary medicine
* new chapters on smoking cessation and asthma prevention
* practical advice on providing structured asthma care in the primary care setting.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Understanding Heart Disease


Diseases of the heart are the leading cause of death in the Western world. Health professionals and the general public alike eagerly watch advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease. Yet the more spectacular aspects of medical progress in the field are often reported prematurely and their potential benefits exaggerated.Written in clear, accessible language, this book presents an authoritative and balanced picture of how heart diseases are recognized and managed. From his many years of experience, Dr. Selzer believes a well-informed patient can cooperate more successfully with a physician, and his book includes information vital to anyone confronting heart problems and cardiac emergencies.

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AIDS - The Burdens of History

Publisher's Description: The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the past affect the future - in particular, what does the history of medical science and public health tell us about our ability to control the epidemic and eventually to cure the disease? Historical methods of inquiry change, and people who use these methods often disagree on theory and practice. Indeed, the contributors to this volume hold a variety of opinions on controversial historiographic issues. But they share three important principles: cautious adherence to the "social constructionist" view of past and present; profound skepticism about historicism's idea of progress; and wariness about "presentism," the distortion of the past by seeing it only from the point of view of the present.Each of the twelve essays addresses an aspect of the burdens of history during the AIDS epidemic. By "burdens" is meant the inescapable significance of events in the past for the present. All of these events are related in some way to the current epidemic and can help clarify the complex social and cultural responses to the crisis of AIDS.This collection illuminates present concerns directly and forcefully without sacrificing attention to historical detail and to the differences between past and present situations. It reminds us that many of the issues now being debated - quarantine, exclusion, public needs and private rights - have their parallels in the past. This will be an important book for social historians and general readers as well as for historians of medicine.

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Tobacco War - Inside the California Battles

Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton Glantz and Edith Balbach follow the movement through the 1980s, when activists created hundreds of city and county ordinances by working through their local officials, to the present--when tobacco is a highly visible issue in American politics and smoke-free restaurants and bars are a reality throughout the state. The authors show how these accomplishments rest on the groundwork laid over the past two decades by tobacco control activists who have worked across the U.S. to change how people view the tobacco industry and its behavior. Tobacco War is accessibly written, balanced, and meticulously researched. The California experience provides a graphic demonstration of the successes and failures of both the tobacco industry and public health forces. It shows how public health advocates slowly learned to control the terms of the debate and how they discovered that simply establishing tobacco control programs was not enough, that constant vigilance was necessary to protect programs from a hostile legislature and governor. In the end, the California experience proves that it is possible to dramatically change how people think about tobacco and the tobacco industry and to rapidly reduce tobacco consumption. But California's experience also demonstrates that it is possible to run such programs successfully only as long as the public health community exerts power effectively. With legal settlements bringing big dollars to tobacco control programs in every state, this book is must reading for anyone interested in battling and beating the tobacco industry.

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Tuberculosis 2007



Tuberculosis 2007 is a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.

Editor Juan Carlos Palomino, Sylvia Cardoso Leão,Viviana Ritacco

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007


This fully illustrated ebook provides current, sound, practical information on the successful wearing, and caring for contact lenses. It is a comprehensive guide, with instructional pictures, and specific recommendations, in addition to an impressive emergency section. Dr. Jay B Stockman is a senior medical consultant, and member of several educational organizations. A must have for any contact lens wearer.

This e-book includes distribution rights. This means you can give this book away by emailing it to friends, or putting it on your website as a free download. Use it as a valuable resource, or use it to promote your own website.

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Natural Health

In it you will find our comprehensive guide to cholesterol and heart disease - a subject that worries many people and that virtually everyone needs to know about. Unfortunately, most of the information we get on this subject is plain wrong and virtually ALL of it comes to us from someone with a vested interest in our response.

It explores the truth behind cholesterol, it's functions, effects and the REAL causes of high cholesterol and heart disease that you can do something about right now without taking expensive and dangerous medicines.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Natural Health E-Book



This comprehensive E-Book has been put together after a lifetime of studying Natural Health and the impact that chemicals have on the body's metabolism. The author himself has been severely affected by chemicals as a young man in New Zealand whilst carrying on his business as an agricultural spraying contractor and has had to live with debilitating symptoms doctors had no answers for, all his life. It was only after resorting to rigid attention to diet and eliminating chemicals in all their forms, that he was able to lead a more or less normal life.

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Amazing Weight Loss & Health Tips



~ Learn how to make homemade juices
~ Fruit juice recipes
~ Smoothies & shakes tips
~ Fruit smoothie recipes
~ Homemade beauty recipes
~ Lose weight by juice fasting
~ About the raw food healing diet
~ Learn the difference between real hunger & appetite
~ Weekly meal plan template

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Pracitcal Lessons In Yoga

Yoga Philosophy is one of the six systems of Hindu Philosophy which exist in India. Unlike so many other philosophies of the world, it is a philosophy that is wholly practical. Yoga is an exact science based on certain immutable Laws of Nature. It is well known to people of all countries of the world interested in the study of Eastern civilization and culture, and is held in awe and reverence as it contains in it the master-key to unlock the realms of Peace, Bliss, Mystery and Miracle.

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